Non-refillable bottle.



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CLARENCE F. HEATH, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO EDIVARD E. DODGE, OF SAYLESVILLE, RHODE ISLAND.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 693,601, dated February 18, 1902.

Application filed October 28, 1901. Serial No. 80,335. [No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE F. HEATH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence,in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to bottles adapted to prevent a repeated use after its original closure, and has for its purposes the ends customarily sought by means of devices of this character.

To these ends my invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein-- Figure 1 is a vertical central section of my device; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the button or plug on line co m of Fig. 3, showing spring in elevation; Fig. 3, a side view of the same, and Fig. 4 is a vertical central section of the upper portion of the bottle after the fracture of the head.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the views.

The construction of my device is as follows:

The neck A of the bottle B is provided with an exterior annular swell, above which is an annular groove (1,. Integral with the neck A. isa head C,provided at its top with an annular rectangular internal ledge 19 above an annular shoulder c, with a beveled upper face 61. Pressing upon the upper face of the stopper D is a plug or button E, provided with an annular shoulder e of a sufficient diameter to fit into the ledge 17, but sufficiently thin to allow the surface of the plug E to lie in a slightly lower plane than that of the mouth. A rectangular annular groove f is formed in the plug-shank at such a point that after insertion the upper groove-surface coincides with the shoulder c of the bottle -head. In the groove f of the plug is placed a metallic ring M, of brass or other spring metal, with a section thereof removed, leaving the free terminals on and m. The diameter of the spring-ring M is sufficiently great to allow compression of the terminals within the groove f to force the terminals out of the suggested, after insertion the face of the plug is sufficiently depressed to prevent successful prying of the same from its bed.

With the exception of the spring M and the stopper D the material of the parts is preferably glass.

To secure the contents of the bottle, the head 0 is brought into contact with some hard object with sufficient force to fracture the same at its weak point, which is of course along the line of the external groove a. The removal of the head exposes the stopper D, which can now be readily withdrawn.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a non-refillable bottle, the combination with a head provided with an internal circumferential ledge near its top, of an annular shoulder below said ledge having a beveled upper face, a plug having a circumferential shoulder seated on the aforesaidledge and a lower external circumferential groove, and a circular metallic ring seated in the latter groove engaging the lower face of the annular shoulder.

In testimony whereof Ihave affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CLARENCE F. HEATH. Witnesses: I

GEORGE D. ANTHONY, HORATIO E. BELLOWS. 

